The index plummeted to 36.1 from 41.9, with new orders from abroad falling at their fastest rate in seven years, confounding expectations that the weaker pound would help exporters.
Swedish avant-pop duo the Knife have been releasing records for 15 years, confounding expectations, drawing followers, crafting a strange, visually impressive project of which music is the most prominent of many disciplines.
Although studies have used telemetry to monitor Chinook salmon movement and survival through the LRE, comparisons between outmigration years are confounded by differences in tag technologies, array locations, and experimental designs.
Police commanders who had lost scores of men to Taliban bombs and ambushes over the years were confounded as carloads of armed Taliban fighters arrived at city gates, seeking to celebrate Eid in the open, with their sworn enemies.
Because C1M was obtained only at baseline, information beyond 9 years was confounded.
Although variable length of pollen season from year-to-year could confound the observed QoL benefits, the presentation of a five-year 'average' pollen season would mitigate this, and for the purposes of health economic evaluation an 'average' pollen season is a reasonable construct.
In beating Djokovic 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 42 minutes to win his first ATP World Tour Finals title, the Scot secured the world No1 spot at the end of a long and glorious year, and confounded pessimists who predicted the rigours of the past week – not to mention the previous three months – would drain him of the will to win.
Year was confounded with breed of sire and was considered fixed.
He has spent the last few years cheerfully confounding the expectations of listeners who had grown used to a steady diet of drinking and love songs.
Dr. Jay Katz, a physician and a professor at Yale Law School who spent more than 40 years tackling confounding questions on the boundaries between law, medicine, psychology and ethics, died Monday at his home in New Haven, Conn.
My theory is that Thomas has remained silent all these years to confound his critics.
